Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was the last collaboration between Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. It is said the actor filmed the movie even while his health was failing because he felt it was important. Unfortunately, Tracy died before the landmark Loving v. Virginia decision and months before the film’s release in December, 1967. The film will forever be a clever story that dares to question the status quo on race and interracial relationships that set precedence then, holds up today, and marks as a cornerstone for remakes, variations and similarly inspired, socially relevant cinema.
Joey Drayton, a young white woman brings her African American fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to meet her liberal parents. What unfolds is a poignant examination of love and prejudice as the parents grapple with their beliefs and the implications of their daughter's choice in a time when interracial marriage was still controversial in parts of the United States.
Reviews
"An outstanding Stanley Kramer production, superior in almost every imaginable way, which examines its subject matter with perception, depth, insight, humor and feeling." –Variety
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